Mama’s face is chestnut brown. Her dark brown eyes are bright as bees. Papa’s face turns ..
Deng Adut (Born 1980) Deng grew up happily on his family’s banana farm in a fishing village beside ..
I can’t sleep tonight. I’m too excited! Because tomorrow.. me, my mom, and my big brother, ..
Everyone sat around me in a big circle and Mr. Menard handed me a large sack tied with a pretty ribbon. ..
What begins as a slow, distant glow grows and grows into a tired train that clatters down the tracks. ..
CHAPTER ONE NYA WAS NOT a good goatherd. The sun had barely broken over the trees as she pulled Zvezda ..
In Brooklyn in the summer not so long ago grown-ups always had someplace to be or some kind of work to do, but the minute ..
In Grandfather’s workshop the fire was already crackling inside the brick stove. Later, it would ..
The lion sleeps. He dreams he is in a field of flowers. The flowers are as big as the sun. The flowers ..
Bilal is biking outside with his friends, when his father steps out of the house. “Bilal, it’s ..
Soon Katie began to shiver. “How can I feel cold and hot at the same time?” she wondered. ..
SUMMER Deep in these woods, we find a shack all wrapped in tar paper. It’s hot outside, but the shack looks ..
CHAPTER 1 Next to kimchi, Koreans have perfected one other thing: The Dramatic Pause. It’s that ..
Holly sat on her chair and poked pieces of pancake in syrup with her fork. She loved maple syrup with ..
It’s the perfect day to go to the park and feed the ducks with my big sister, Tara. Except my brother ..
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant ..
What would Glenn Street do? Randi asked herself as she pedaled down the gravel road that ran beside the river ..
I am usually María Alegre. I like to play tricks on Mami. We will talk in English in the morning and Spanish ..
Wash Day was the day I’d get Mami all to myself. For me it was the best day of the week. Unless ..
